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NOVE.MBEE 4, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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Ridge and Furrow Range of Floral Ezchanee at Edgely, Pa. 



ture. The house is planted chiefly with 

 My Maryland roses, some of which are 

 dimly seen. Certain lines in the picture 

 indicate the method of tying the house 

 together. This house is 64x228 and con- 

 tains 12,000 plants." 



BEGONIA INCARNATA. 



Begonia incarnata is a wonderfully 

 floriterous and attractive winter bloom- 

 ing begonia; not a few good growers pre- 

 fer it to Lorraine. The improved or 

 grandiflora type, referred to some years 

 ago in the Eeview as originated with 

 Charles^Sander, Brookline, Mass., is vast- 

 ly superior to the ordinary type. It is 

 surprising that some wide-awake com- 

 mercial grower has not worked up a large 

 stock of this and placed it on the mar- 

 ket in adequate quantities. It is a vig- 

 orous grower, propagates with the great- 

 est ease, requires less warmth than Lor- 

 raine at all stages of growth, and from 

 Christmas to February is a perfect mass 

 of its beautiful light pink flowers. 

 Plants in 6-inch pots should be salable. 

 Such can be easily had from cuttings 

 rooted in February or March. Give your 

 incarnatas a house not warmer than 50 

 degrees at night, full sun, plenty of 

 water, liquid manure once a week, and 

 you will have "capital plants for Christ- 

 mas and January sales. C. 



[The Eeview would like to hear from 

 anyone who has stock to offer of San- 

 der's improved form of B. incarnata.] 



CYCLAMEN MITE, 



I am sending you a sample of cycla- 

 men leaves. I grow about 200 cyclamen 

 plants from seeds, partly imported and 

 partly bought here, and all from the 

 most celebrated cyclamen growers. I 

 have good luck with them till they get 

 into their flowering pots. I use a com- 

 post of leaf-mold, cow manure, rotted 

 sod and sand. After the nights get cool, 

 the temperature often goes down at night 

 to 45 degrees until we get steady firing 

 about November 1, when I can get a 

 steady night temperature of 60 degrees. 

 About eighty per cent of the plants have 

 twis'ted, wrinkled leaves, starting from 

 the corn or bulb. Is it the cyclamen 

 mite? If so, what is the cure for it? 

 I have grown cyclamen with good suc- 



cess for the last fifteen years until three 

 seasons ago, when I came to grow them 

 here in Massachusetts. The pots are 

 plunged in tobacco stems and I have 

 watered them with nicotine water and 

 fumigated them. I can see no thrip on 

 them. W. L. P. 



The leaves forwarded show unmistak- 

 able evidences of the dreaded cyclamen 

 mite, which each season ruins so many 

 batches of plants. Having tried every 

 imaginable remedy, I am bound to con- 

 fess that I have failed to discover any 

 remedy for this trouble. Many good 

 growers in your state are each year 

 obliged to throw away their entire batch 

 of plants, in spite of every effort to suc- 

 cessfully combat it. I regret that I can 

 hold out no promise of relief in your 

 case, and can only advise throwing away 

 the plants, which will be unsalable if 

 kept until they bloom, as most of the 

 flowers will come deformed, and utilize 

 the space vacated for some other crop. 



C.W. 



THRIPS ON POINSETTIAS. 



We are sending you by express a sam- 

 ple stalk of poinsettia, cut at our green- 

 houses, the end of which is diseased, 

 hardened and worthless. It seems to be 

 almost petrified, it is so hard and dry. 

 Will you kindly advise what the trouble 

 is, and the remedy? H. & O. 



Thrips ard undoubtedly the cause of 

 the hardening and drying of the ends of 

 your poinsettias. The same trouble has 

 been experienced in other places this 

 season, probably due to the long con- 

 tinued dry spell experienced. We had 

 not noticed this pest on poinsettias be- 

 fore the present season, but it gets its 

 work in almost unknown to us. As 

 poinsettias are injured by anything ap- 

 proaching heavy fumigation, we would 

 advise spraying the affected tops with a 

 nicotine solution. One application will 

 not suffice, but if persisted in daily for 

 a week most of the thrips should be 

 killed. C. W. 



ASPECT FOR HOUSES. 



I have a piece of land between a main 

 road and a railroad, running not quite 

 directly north Snd south, but a little 

 west of north. A sidetrack from the rail- 

 road runs across the west end of the 

 tract, dividing it into two parts, the 

 larger te the south. How should I set a 

 range of greenhouses to get the best 

 aspect? G. E. 



To get the full benefit of the sun, the 

 houses ought to run east and west; that 

 is, they should face the south. There 

 may be conditions which may make this 

 arrangement impossible, such as a heavy 

 slope to the north. By running your 

 houses from main road to main railroad 

 you have the ideal aspect, if the ground 

 is suitable for this arrangement, 



BiBES. 



East Cambridge, Mass. — Matt Far- 

 rell, an experienced florist with a con- 

 siderable acquaintance here, has opened 

 a store at 94a Hampshire street. 



Wheeling, W. Va. — Arthur Langhans, 

 of Virginia avenue, has just received a 

 handsome new delivery wagon to handle 

 his rapidly growing trade in flowers. 



Looking Down on a Rose House 64x228 at Edgely. 



